Labor Union Research for the Labor Relations Community

Digitized primary materials on “the Southern experience in 19th century America”. Includes slave narratives, southern gentry memoirs, and literature of the period.

Listing of labor history web sites around the world.

See the Resources section for links to online oral history projects, exhibits, talks & tours, journals, and more.

Features a very useful historical timeline.

Excellent multimedia site created by the Cornell ILR Kheel Center and UNITE!; history, photographs, documents, oral histories, cartoons, research guide for high school students.

The American Labor Museum is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating the history of the labor movement, as well as the culture and ethnicity of working people in the United States. The museum operates the historic Botto House, a property listed on the state and national registers of historic places. The restored residence contains period rooms and contemporary gallery space for changing exhibits.

The Kheel Center's main role is the preservation of original source materials relevant to the history of American labor unions, management theory as it applies to labor and industrial relations, and the history of employees at the workplace.

The site of the Walter P. Reuther Library. At this site, click on "Image Gallery", "Audio Clips" and "Selected Speeches" for on-line resources.

An internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left. The primary focus is the complex relationship between trade unionism and progressive politics and how this evolved over time. Archival, print, photograph, film, and oral history collections describe the history of the labor movement and how it related to the broader struggle for economic, social, and political change.

The Tenement Museum, located in Manhattan, tells the stories of immigrants who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

The U.S. Department of Labor Library provides members of the general public as well as Department of Labor employees with access to both historically significant and current resources pertaining to labor. Library users can access labor related resources via the World Wide Web or by visiting the library located in Washington DC.